Day 1, Karumba to Cloncurry

So it was over 450 "K"'s of driving, almost all straight road, punctuated every few minutes (literally!) with these signs - Floodway; Road Subject to Floodings, Indicators Show Depth.  Fortunately, we are here in the dry part of the year!

you measure it in meters?

And what are all these little pyramids throughout the outback?  Yes, kids, they are termites - millions of them!  See their little houses?

And we knew there were no towns between Normanton (just 70 Ks out of Karumba) and Cloncurry.  We also knew that little green signs on the road mean that you are a certain number of Ks from a town that begins with the initial at the top of the sign.  So what did this sign mean? 

Well, it meant Burke-Wills, the crossroads of two highways and host to a great road house.

And a place to get petrol (that is very important in the outback!)  Here is Rowan's favorite type of vehicle, a road train.  Check out its size, compared to our little red mud covered "Ubi" (our van's license plate in UBQ094), and we are ubiquitous, so that's her name.